David Statman wrote:
>Hi,
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>We're looking at using m0n0wall at our company. We currently have around 50
>users internally, although we could end up at 60-70 users by the end of the
>year. I'd like to hear from others who use m0n0wall in similarly-sized
>organizations, particularly with respect to whether or not you've
>experienced any performance issues. My boss is a little skittish about
>relying on open source software (however good it may be) for our firewall.
>
>More info...We host a website with ASP pages that query a SQL database. So
>far, the number of simultaneous connections to our website has remained
>under 100. We also have an Exchange server and an FTP server. About 15
>remote users connect to us via Terminal server. We also have a VPN tunnel
>established with one of our business partners.
>
>Thanks in advance to any who share their experiences,
>
>David Statman
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David,
Currently our company offers high speed internet (5mb per user) to the
building tenants where our datacenter is located, in all we have around
120 clients using this network which all lies behind a single m0n0wall
system. It never blinks, I have had 1 lockup in the last 3 months which
turned out to be a flakey power supply. The system typically on a busy
day pushes 7-15Mbps without problems. Hardware is a P4 3.2 with 1024mb
ram and Intel Pro NICs.
We also use it to protect our server farms, some run in DMZ (bridged)
others run in the LAN with port forwards. On our main server rack we
have each server with 2 NICs one NIC is connected to the filtered bridge
DMZ side for public services (web mail dns..etc) the other NIC is
connected to the LAN side where we provide VPN access for our employees
to access and maintain the servers over an encrypted channel. This setup
so far has served us great its been rock solid. Hardware for these
setups is a P4 3.2 with 1024mb ram and Intel Pro NICs.
As for performance issues, all I can say is use good hardware, it make
one heck of a difference when pushing the Mbps around. I personally
wouldnt use a wrap or soekris board for what we have setup because of
the throughput we need, so we went with high end. Which was probably the
best thing we did when building the systems. We tested other hardware
setups and went with the highest performer we found (we went on the side
of overkill, instead of "just enough").
Hope these details help,
--
Eric Collins
Sr Network Administrator
Tawifi.com
Downtown Tucson WiFi Network
http://www.tawifi.com